Atmatattva Viveka

SR No.: 010032
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Udayanacharya
Publisher: Udayanacharya
Total Pages: 217
Language: Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 13 MB

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in the universe which is an appearance through its own Mayic Power, Remaining what it is, it appears as if it were alienated from itself. This is technically known as स्वातन्त्र्य, which consists in aggregation (संयो· जन ) and separation ( वियोजन ).
The peculiar character of a is that it tends to project out as external ( at ), as objective, the Universe which lies so long merged in the Self as one with it and then turns it back, when thus externalised, into the quiescent unity of the Infinite Self-awareness ( quigrar ). The Self is considered in a double aspect, viz. (1) when it is limited, as Jiva or Aņu, and is dependent and tainted with Matter, and (2) when it is pure, free, infinite and unconditioned. The so-called Jiva or Individual is in reality the Pure Self, attaining to contraction in consequence of its being the subject ( प्रमाता ) of prāpa & the other objects ( प्रमेय ) already externalised by itself from its own bosom-which externalisation is due to the enactment at will (41) of its cosmic play. In either aspect the Self being essentially the Principle of Awareness is the background of all kinds of knowledge, positive or negative. It runs as a continuous thread in succession, and hence self-illumination forms its very essence. Thus it will be clear that both the aspects are fundamentally identical. Self-consciousness is the consciousness of oneness with the universe and lies behind all possible states of consciousness. Apart from and independently of this the existence of Matter is not conceiveable, because it is not possible to think of Matter either as identical with or as different from the Light of the Self. The truth therefore appears to be that one non-material Subject, through its own inherent